Sooner or later (Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas of Zentangle think it's 32 tiles later) your Sakura pen will start to fade and finally run out of ink. My experience is that by that time the patented tip is also not delivering a steady line. Do you keep on drawing until it really does run out of ink or is there another strategy?
When I notice that the line isn't full of ink or the tip seems to be giving me a blotchy line, I identify it with a piece of black electrical tape near the end opposite the tip. I use these pens, instead of the ones that are working well, to fill in large black areas. Yes, it takes a bit more time to coax the ink out of a fading pen, but at least I'm not prematurely wearing out a new pen.
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